Wise Things Quotes

Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power. ~ Naomi Judd

Guard your reputation.
Develop your character.
Defend your honour.
Preserve your legacy.

The more wise things you say,
the wiser you appear.
The more wise things you do,
the wiser you become.
The more wise things you do and say,
the wiser you are. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. ~ J.K. Rowling

The scariest thing about the world is knowing it goes on when you're not there. ~ Eric Kahn Gale

Such a pretty girl- to say such wise things. ~ Various

Granny was truly marvellous; five feet of Yorkshire common sense, love, and superstition. She was always saying wise things. I remember, among many sayings, when one time she had given me a particularly good present, she said, "No it's not generous. Being generous is giving something that's hard to give." She was so superstitious that she kept a set of worthless china to break when she happened to break something good, on the grounds that breakages always came in threes and it was as well to get it over. I would have been lost without Granny, that I know. ~ Diana Wynne Jones

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition. ~ Omar Sharif

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew. ~ Voltaire

I understand that most iPhone users want a phone that can do other nifty things, not a general purpose computer that happens to make phone calls. Strict control over apps minimizes the chances that someone will find their phone hacked or virus-laden. ~ Jamais Cascio

The lies you told sounded like the truth. But the true things you said still sounded like a lie.- ~ Colyn Wilson

Farsi Couplet:
Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanast
Zauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neest


English Translation:
The creaking of the chain of Majnun is the orchestra of the lovers,
To appreciate its music is quite beyond the ears of the wise. ~ Amir Khusrau

The truth is women need men, we are neither superior nor inferior to men. We are better at some things and worse at other things. Mature people take the hard road and choose to delay quick gratification for true love. Mature people realize that the world does not revolve around them, and their desires, but around commitment. Mature people are committed to something beyond themselves; God, good, the good of society, family etc.
If men are the source of your problems, then you are doomed to wait for eternity for them to fix it. ~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

[...] The idea of honor in battle has been passed down for generations. It went from Greece to Rome, to the medieval world and the Crusades. It was beloved of Sir Philip Sidney, Essex and Southampton [...]. In many ways, the British Empire was founded on it [...] The idea came to a halt in the First World War [...] The poets, led by Wilfred Owen, told the truth about it "[...] The old lie : 'Dulce el decorum est pro patria mori'.
[...]Henry IV Part I is a play with much "honor". Honor is its central theme. So let's examine Henry IV Part I for a moment, to understand the ingredients of "honor". [...] You will notice there are not many women in these plays [about honor]-and when they appear, they are usually whores or faifthful wives. Honor is not a woman's story[...] 'What is honour? A word', (...) a mere scutcheon" [says] Falstaff's iconoclasm and truthful vision about honor.
{...]There are several things we can see in all this. The first is that war is a man´s game, it is intolerable, and the only way you can get people to do it is to make the alternative seem a hundred times worse [...] Therefore, valor must be glorified, if not deified. [...] ~ Tina Packer

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without. ~ Og Mandino

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith. ~ Andy Williams

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. ~ Joan Halifax

But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them. ~ Philip Sington

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities. ~ Daphne Guinness

Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel ~ Paige Omartian

I think that's the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you're never going to grow up and you're never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don't wait ~ Hugh Laurie

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing. ~ Elvis Costello

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest. ~ Thomas A Kempis

I AM WAY NOT PERFECT!!! So I'm perfectly imperfect :3 if you wanna chat on Kik messager I am catlover6688 I am 11 years old and I love scary things like creepypasta cya later in the rabbit hole everyone ;3 ~ PerfectlyImperfect

Maybe that's normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes. ~ Francesca Zappia

Poor Metias. He's not supposed to be a father. He's supposed to be out on his own, independent and free to concentrate on his job as a young captain. But somebody has to take care of me, and I make his life so much harder than it needs to be. I wonder what things must have been like for him back when our parents were still alive, when I was a toddler and Metias was a teenager and he could focus on growing up instead of helping someone else grow up. Still, Metias hasn't complained once. Not a single time. And even though I wish our parents were here, sometimes I'm really happy that this is our little family unit, just me and my brother, each watching out for no one but the other. We do the best we can. ~ Marie Lu

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities. ~ Eric Ries

What's God saying to you now? "All things are possible to him who worries?" No. "All things are possible to him who attempts to work it out?" No. "All things are possible to him who believes.
Man to Man: Chuck Swindoll Selects His Most Significant Writings for Men ~ Charles R. Swindoll

Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best. ~ Stephen King

Don't waste your time complaining about how bad things are. Spend your time making things better. ~ Gary L. Graybill

You're holding your future self responsible for something your past self didn't know anything about. You can't judge your past behavior because of the way things turned out. You had no way of knowing what would happen next. It's only because you do know that you judge your past self. ~ E.K. Blair

The things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I've seen it. ~ Taylor Swift

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you. ~ A.A. Milne

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us. ~ John Hughes

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do. ~ Dolly Parton

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them. ~ Greta Garbo

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way. ~ William L. Hubbard

We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas. ~ John Hench

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

That was his favorite thing about books - they took you off to other people's lives an' places, but you could still set in your own chair by th'oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn. ~ Jan Karon

Accustomed to the calm aspects of things, she turned, instead, toward the more tumultuous. She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it grew up here and there among ruins. She needed to derive from things a sort of personal gain; and she rejected as useless everything that did not contribute to the immediate gratification of her heart, - being by temperament more sentimental than artistic, in search of emotions and not landscapes. ~ Gustave Flaubert

Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me. ~ Peter Hollingworth

I didn't understand it then, but I've come to see he was right about his choice to leave his country limiting him forever. We are all confined by what we choose. If I had taken the gift of his question, if I had shown him even the smallest piece of private history, things might be different today. But I was silent and have chosen to remain so for too long. Now even the smallest revelation would seem cataclysmic. ~ Jenny Siler

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing. ~ J.K. Rowling

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet. ~ Guy Laliberte

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes. ~ Joseph O'Neill

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like. ~ Daniel Clowes

I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups. ~ Lena Dunham

One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors. ~ Denis Waitley

He rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families ... ~ George Eliot

We are sorry about the way things turned out. We gave, in the phrasing of our words if not literally in the words themselves, the false impression that these pages might hold some small fragment, some slight fragrance of a greater truth. That there might be something here to be learned. Before we go any further the author of this cartoon wishes to make an apology. Such an impression was deliberately cultivated. It is a ruse. It is a lie. We are every bit as lost and afraid as children abandoned in a wood: every bit as lost as you. ~ Anders Nilsen

The only things that give it the illusion of being one country are the green-back, The Tonight Show, and McDonald's. ~ Neil Gaiman

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better. ~ Andy Roddick

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

the fact is, our relationships to these corporations are not unambiguous. some memebers of negativland genuinely liked pepsi products. mca grew up loving star wars and didn't mind having his work sent all over the united states to all the "cool, underground magazines" they were marketing to--why would he? sam gould had a spiritual moment in the shower listening to a cd created, according to sophie wong, so that he would talk about tylenol with his independent artist friends--and he did. many of my friends' daughters will be getting american girl dolls and books as gifts well into the foreseeable future. some skateboarders in washington, dc, were asked to create an ad campaign for the east coast summer tour, and they all love minor threat--why not use its famous album cover? how about shilling for converse? i would have been happy to ten years ago. so what's really changed?
the answer is that two important things have changed: who is ultimately accountable for veiled corporate campaigns that occasionally strive to obsfucate their sponsorship and who is requesting our participation in such campaigns. behind converse and nike sb is nike, a company that uses shit-poor labor policies and predatory marketing that effectively glosses over their shit-poor labor policies, even to an audience that used to know better. behind team ouch! was an underground-savvy brainreservist on the payroll of big pharma; behind the recent wave of street art in hip urban areas near you was omd worl ~ Anne Elizabeth Moore

There's a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I'm working on a comic strip I re-read it, probably hundreds of times through to pay attention to how all of those things work. Sometimes even changing the angle of a character's eyebrow can really, seriously alter the effect and overall interpretation of a scene. And the insertion of a pause or a cough or a sniff, and all these things that we do in conversation, can bring it to life in a strange way. ~ Chris Ware